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yjftsjthsd-h
on Jan 18, 2018
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Wine 3.0 Released
> The only reason 32bit windows is still around is to support 16bit apps for these companies.
Pretty sure it's also used in some Atom tablets.
monocasa
on Jan 18, 2018
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Atoms have been 64bit since 2010.
TheKitchenSinc
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The HP Stream 7, a tablet released in late 2014 on the 64-bit Atom Z3735G, shipped with 32-bit Windows. This was presumably to avoid the memory overhead of 64-bit pointers, as it came with 1GB of RAM, so every bit counted.
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Pretty sure it's also used in some Atom tablets.